Pamela Thoma
- Professor
Biography
- Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Director, Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2018-2025
- Director, Graduate Program in American Studies, 2016-2018
- PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
Honors & Fellowships
- Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English, 2021-2024
- Best Graduate Seminar of the Year, 2020-2021, ENGL 595 Futurity: Feminist and Queer Theoretical Interventions & Genres of Speculation
- Fulbright American Scholar, “Gender and Citizenship in Asian American Literature and Culture,” 2016-2017 (Okinawa, Japan)
- Visiting Fellow, The Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, May-June 2015
Research Interests
- Asian American Studies
- Feminist, Queer, and Critical Race Theory
- Feminist Media and Cultural Studies
- Health Studies
- Neoliberalism
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Narrative
Selected Publications
- Barbie’s Feminisms? (*See disclaimer) In Media Res 31 January 2024.
- Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, co-edited with Ruth Y. Hsu. Modern Language Association of America, 2022. (Book)
- “Brazil-Maru and the Narrative Space of Impersonal Feelings” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, Modern Language Association of America, 2022. 168-174.
- “Learning from and Walking Lightly Through Pandemic Racism and Misogyny to Another World.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience, ABC-CLIO, Bloomsbury, 2022.
- “Contemporary Asian American Women’s Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form” Asian American Literature in Transition, volume 4, Betsy Huang and Victor Mendoza, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 216-238.
- “Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl” Noir Affect, Christopher Breu and Elizabeth Hatmaker, eds. Fordham University Press, 2020. 197-221.
- Asian American Women’s Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging. Temple University Press, 2014. (Book)
- “What Julia Knew: Domestic Labor in the Recession-Era Chick Flick,” Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker, eds. Duke University Press, 2014. 107–135.
- “Neoliberal Maternal Discourse, Tiger Mothers, and Asian American Mother-Daughter Narrative,” Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices. Patti Duncan and Gina Wong, eds. Demeter Press, 2014. 95–118.
- “Buying Up Baby: Modern Feminine Subjectivity, Assertions of ‘Choice,’ and the Repudiation of Reproductive Justice in Postfeminist Unwanted Pregnancy Films,” Feminist Media Studies 9.4 (Dec. 2009): 209–225.
- “Intercollegiate Web Pedagogy: Possibilities and Limitations of Virtual Asian American Studies,” with John Cheng and Karen Chow, Asian.America.Net, Rachel C. Lee and Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, eds. Routledge, 2003. 193–212.
- “Of Beauty Pageants and Barbie: Theorizing Consumption in Asian American Transnational Feminism,” (*See disclaimer) Genders: A Journal of the Arts, Humanities and Social Theory 29 (1999).
Recent Teaching
- WGSS 120 Sex, Race, and Reproduction in Global Health Politics
- WGSS 481 Feminist Theory
- WGSS 581 Feminist and Queer Theories and Frameworks
- ENGL 573 Postwork Imaginaries and Contemporary American Narrative Culture
- ENGL 595 Futurity: Feminist and Queer Theoretical Interventions & Genres of Speculation
CV available upon request
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